The biggest questions facing humanity

Question from the Internet:

“What do you think is the biggest question in the world today? How would the world be if it was answered?”

I think the biggest questions — which we haven’t been able to answer for millennia — that determine our future are: who are we?; what is our overall purpose in life?; and why are we called “human beings” over other animals?

So far, with all of our philosophies and faith systems, we haven’t been able to answer these questions. We have been identifying certain “mundane” things as the purpose of our lives — consumerism, quantitative growth, raising our children, becoming famous and respected, getting to know the world so we can obtain everything we want for ourselves, etc.

Most of these “human goals” either do not make us any different from other animals or lead us on a path of destruction and self-destruction without answering any of the questions above.

We have a unique, empirical, and natural science that explains to us who we are and what system or reality we exist in. It also explains why we are incompatible with and ignorant about this system by birth and why and how we can make ourselves knowledgeable about and compatible with the system of reality.

Nature is a fully integrated and mutually complementing system, where each element — except human beings — instinctively and unconsciously play out their roles in sustaining the general balance and homeostasis that life and optimal development depends on. This Natural system is governed by strict and unchanging laws and is developing according to a deterministic evolutionary plan.

Our unparalleled human role and purpose in this system are to become the only fully conscious and aware element in it. We are supposed to become — starting with our present generation — that system’s only integrated and, at the same time, independent observers and equal and conscious partners.

This is the reason why we are born seemingly disconnected from and outside of the system, with an internal program that is destructive both for Nature and for ourselves. At the same time, we also have a unique human intellect, capable of critical self-assessment and initiating a unique self-development, through which we can achieve integration into Nature.

This integration needs to unfold above and against our original and instinctive nature, and it unfolds through achieving similarity with Nature’s finely balanced and mutually integrated template within human interconnections and human society. Through this process, all other goals, aspirations, and purposes will fade into the background as we find a qualitatively much higher sense of existence through the mutual integration between us and through our similarity with Nature. (As a “side-effect,” of course, our physical life will also become much better and crisis-free since we will live and behave exactly how we are supposed to).

When we reach our unique role and purpose in Nature’s system and fully attain the system and all of its cause-and-effect processes from within, we become “Human beings” that become similar to Nature by their own efforts, above and against their original nature.